Marvellous Women cards don’t only aim to give you answers but also stimulate your curiosity. By exploring inspirational women and their wisdom, you might find yourself on a path of new discoveries by taking a leaf out of someone else’s book and doing something you wouldn’t normally do. For example, Ada Lovelace, who you will meet in the Marvellous Women deck. Ada thought about what ‘could be’, exploring the possibilities, and was the first person to recognise what computers could do in the mid-1800s! At that time, most of her contemporaries saw computers as only calculators, but Ada’s curiosity led to a vision of potential. Today she is recognised as the first computer programmer.
Curiosity keeps your blood pumping and gives you a lust for life and adventure, but it’s also crucial for your ongoing growth; here are four reasons why.
- It indicates you’re ready for growth
Einstein believed that curiosity is more important than intelligence. He was right, and understanding why is quite simple. Curiosity indicates a desire to acquire new knowledge and is linked to good learning capacity and memory. When you want answers to something, you remember them better, so this makes perfect sense. This insight explains why big life decisions should always lead to places that stimulate your curiosity because this is where your highest growth potential will lie. Curiosity keeps you engaged with your learning materials.
- Curiosity goes hand-in-hand with intelligence
According to a study published in Neuron, a scientific journal in the Cell Press family, curiosity is more of a personality trait while intelligence refers to your abilities; it is easier to measure. While the two are different, they’re also closely linked because those who are curious are more motivated to increase their knowledge base. Intelligence doesn’t refer to how much knowledge you may have; instead, it is your ability to apply new concepts. However, when you regularly apply new ideas, especially when you’re doing so to satisfy a curiosity, you improve your brain’s capacity to increase its learning, boosting your intelligence. So learning and doing new things makes you smarter in more than one way!
- Curiosity leads you to new discoveries and habits
When you satisfy your curiosity with knowledge, you make new discoveries. However, the significance of those findings can drastically increase the more you learn. For example, if you decide to investigate a new concept like aquaponics, you might learn about it simply to understand it. As you learn about farming using the waste from fish, you might become curious about how many people practice this in your area. Once you have satisfied that with answers, you may wonder if you can support these farmers by buying from them, and soon you find yourself changing the way you view your food and where you shop.
- You meet new people
Humans are creatures of habit, and curiosity helps us break out of the same day-in and day-out cycles. By exploring new concepts, we meet new people who further open us up to learning about new ways of living, eating, working or communicating. What we learn from others can enrich our lives more than one way. Firstly, because those discoveries are valuable, but secondly, the very process of expanding our horizons and learning something new introduces a fresh set of dopamine into the body.
Do you find yourself thinking about how you’re going to tackle a new project or get past a challenge to achieve more? Curiosity is a beautiful trait that opens you up to incredible learning opportunities. Next time, instead of just pondering, pick up your deck of Marvellous Women Cards and pick a card or lay out the whole pack and apply the messages on the card to the question in your mind. You might just find a whole new perspective!
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